{"product_id":"imaginary-toys-book-julian-mitchell-9780571304202","title":"Imaginary Toys","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImaginary Toys\u003c\/i\u003e (1961) marked the literary debut of the then 26-year-old Julian Mitchell, who would eventually set aside his prizewinning career as a novelist and achieve wider renown as a dramatist, most famously with \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1981). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImaginary Toys\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of Oxford after World War Two, where class consciousness has become newly acute, and a quartet of narrators wrestle with their studies and their more personal difficulties - among the four a coalminer's son and the daughter of a solid bourgeois family, who fall in love to the discomfort of their respective friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first of a sequence of reflective, autobiographical new introductions composed especially for Faber Finds' reissues of his early novels, Julian Mitchell recalls the atmosphere of mid-1950s Oxford, and the path he took to a literary vocation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53237084487953,"sku":"NLS9780571304202","price":22.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780571304202.jpg?v=1786120650","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/imaginary-toys-book-julian-mitchell-9780571304202","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}